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The second official DSA canvass for Shaun Scott. Shaun is a DSA member who is running for Seattle City Council District 4 and received the chapter’s endorsement. Come and canvass in your DSA swag and let’s get a socialist in City Hall. Canvassing begins at 10AM with a training and is done by 2pm with ... Read more
Let's sharpen our thinking and actions toward a powerful movement to halt climate change and win environmental justice.
Socialize on Sunday with your DSA comrades. Kick back, grab a cup of joe, and learn more about Seattle DSA and the great folks that make it great :)
Join our reading discussion of Emily McGuire's pamphlet on Social Ecology available http://libcom.org/library/social-ecology-pamphlet. Feel free to bring discussion topics and questions of your own. Hope to see you there!
The forth official DSA canvass for Shaun Scott. Shaun is a DSA member who is running for Seattle City Council District 4 and received the chapter’s endorsement. Come and canvass in your DSA swag and let’s get a socialist in City Hall to win affordable housing and Green New Seattle! Canvassing begins at 11AM with ... Read more
Politicians like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wear the socialist label proudly and win support, while organizations that espouse it attract new members in droves. What do they mean by “socialism”? What does or should “socialism” signify in the present era? Nancy Fraser constructs an expanded conception of socialism that overcomes the narrow understandings. Fraser ... Read more
It's the first meeting of the Seattle DSA Committee for Bernie Sanders. Are you excited for 2020 and getting a democratic socialist named Bernard Sanders into office? Then this is the place for you! We'll be going over the initial proposal for how to work for the Sanders election, explaining what an Independent Expenditure campaign ... Read more
The Local Council is the leadership body of Seattle DSA elected every year at our annual convention. This meeting is open only to Seattle DSA members in good standing. This meeting will be teleconferenced. For location information and agenda, e-mail [email protected].
A Spectre is haunting the USA: the first strike wave in over four neoliberal decades. West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona, Los Angeles, teachers have walked off their jobs and shut down schools to demand better pay, more funding for students, no funding for charter schools, and an end to years of austerity. Slowdowns and a threatened ... Read more
We will have a special Jacobin Reading Group this month. Editor and publisher of Jacobin Magazine, Bhaskar Sunkara, will join us for dinner! Bring plenty of questions.
Let's party to help immigrants in danger of deportation. The Fair Fight Bail Bond fund gives people time to seek legal counsel and provide for their kids. Posting bail greatly reduces the chance of deportation. So let's dance, drink specialty cocktails, eat birthday cake, and create justice. All ages event, open to everyone! $20 donation ... Read more
Anti-war activist Gloria La Riva will speak in numerous cities on the current situation in Venezuela, with a progressive perspective on the crucial issues facing the Venezuelan people: the U.S. economic sanctions, the U.S. media blockade, and the people’s organizing efforts to overcome the aggression. La Riva will show exclusive first-hand video footage from her ... Read more
The fifth official DSA canvass for Shaun Scott. Shaun is a DSA member who is running for Seattle City Council District 4 and received the chapter’s endorsement. Come and canvass in your DSA swag and let’s get a socialist in City Hall to win affordable housing and Green New Seattle! Canvassing begins at 11AM with ... Read more
Let's sharpen our thinking and actions toward a powerful movement to halt climate change and win environmental justice. Join us.
This get-together is open to members of the Democratic Socialists of America, non-members who are interested in learning more about the group, and anyone else who'd like to get acquainted with the DSA and its activities. Bring a friend or two who might like to learn more about the group, or who would just like ... Read more
Join the SDSA Immigrant Justice Working Group for a Mother's Day fundraiser! The Fair Fight Bond Fund helps immigrants who are locked up at the NW Detention Center pay their bond so they can get out, be with their families, and seek legal counsel, all of which greatly reduces their chance of deportation! Come out, ... Read more
Socialist Night School is an open course that provides a chance to develop our politics together, regardless of background knowledge or whether you've attended a class before. New members and lifelong socialists, all are welcome! To sign up for our mailing list or to find out more, e-mail us at [email protected] From West Virginia to ... Read more
Do you live in South Seattle? Are you dying to hang out with some of your fellow socialists in the area? Then come to the District 2 socialist social on Thursday, May 16th at 6PM at Perihelion Brewing in Beacon Hill. Talk about district 2 politics, upcoming events, your summer plans, or whatever else suits ... Read more
Join us for our monthly District 4 meet-up! We’ll discuss upcoming DSA events and initiatives and upcoming neighborhood events and campaigns. Then we’ll break for open discussion. The event is open to DSA members from other districts - or anyone curious about DSA! (D4 hosts these meet-ups on the third Thursday of every month.)
Join Seattle DSA as we knock on doors in the Central District as part of DSA’s national Medicare for All campaign! Senator Bernie Sanders has recently released his new Medicare for All bill and DSA has been at the forefront of the fight to guarantee healthcare as a human right. Our canvasses are exciting opportunities ... Read more
The sixth official DSA canvass for Shaun Scott. Shaun is a DSA member who is running for Seattle City Council District 4 and received the chapter’s endorsement. Come and canvass in your DSA swag and let’s get a socialist in City Hall to win affordable housing and Green New Seattle! Canvassing begins at 11AM with ... Read more
A frightful hobgoblin stalks throughout District 2. We are haunted by a ghost—the ghost of Communism! Join our brand-new District 2 Reading group for our first meeting. We will be reading and discussing socialists texts from throughout our rich shared history, from Marx and Engels through contemporary writers. In this session, we will be reading ... Read more
Red May forum "A Green New Future...and How to Win It" was initiated by System Change not Climate Change, and will feature three additional socialist organizations including the Seattle DSA Ecosocialist Caucus. Content warning: it might involve seizing the means of production. Room 310 (Check out SCNCC systemchangenotclimatechange.org)
Tour the three tumultous years of Chile's attempt at a peaceful transition to Socialism: the Popular Unity Government of Salvador Allende, the thousand days that shook the world. How can we use the Chilean experience as a way of thinking about what we might (and might not) face if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Bernie Sanders were ... Read more
Come join us for a caucus meeting! We’re discussing our work with the bond fund, court support and accompaniment, community education, and internal organizing. New faces welcome!
Are you new to the group and interested in learning more about Seattle DSA or socialism in general? If so, this New Member Orientation is for you. We’ll give a brief introduction to Democratic Socialism, an overview of the Seattle DSA, and a summary of the projects Seattle DSA is currently engaged in as well ... Read more
The seventh official DSA canvass for Shaun Scott. Shaun is a DSA member who is running for Seattle City Council District 4 and received the chapter’s endorsement. Come and canvass in your DSA swag and let’s get a socialist in City Hall to win affordable housing and Green New Seattle! Canvassing begins at 11AM with ... Read more
Let’s sharpen our thinking and act toward a powerful movement to halt climate change and win environmental justice. Join us.
The Local Council is the leadership body of Seattle DSA elected every year at our annual convention. This meeting is open only to Seattle DSA members in good standing. For a link to the virtual meeting and an agenda, e-mail [email protected].
Monthly meeting of the SDSA Political Education Working Group. If you’re interested in working on member political education efforts, come on by! Look for reserved table in the back or upstairs.
The security staff at the Frye Art Museum have unionized! They're requesting that the management of the museum voluntarily recognize the union and are holding a kick off press conference on Friday, May 31 with Distrct 3 Councilmember Kshama Sawant and Distrct 4 City Council Candidate Shaun Scott (both endorsed by Seattle DSA) to bring ... Read more
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